Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
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Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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Deadly Assault by Mexican Police on Striking Teachers Leaves 10 Dead,
Dozens More Injured and 22 Disappeared.
with
Laura Carlsen, Americas Program, Center for International Policy

There is an urgent situation facing teachers and their union, the Coordinadora
Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE/SNTE), in Mexico. On
June 19, teachers in the town of Nochixtlán, Oaxaca, were fired upon with live
ammunition by the Federal Police as part of the effort by Mexican President
Enrique Peña Nieto to break the nationwide strike by teachers against the
government's privatizing "education reform" program. The peaceful
demonstration in Nochixtlán was also held to demand the immediate release
from prison of the three top elected union officers of Section 22 of the
CNTE/SNTE, the union representing the teachers in the state of Oaxaca.
These union leaders had been jailed and sent to a federal prison more than
1,000 miles away by the government on trumped-up charges. Ten people
in Nochixtlán were killed by the Federal Police, with dozens more wounded,
and 22 disappeared. Protest organizers also informed the Deputy Counsel of
Mexico that labor and community activists across the United States are
demanding that the U.S. government halt all military aid to Mexico, as the
weapons made available to the Mexican Federal Police to repress the
teachers have all been sent by the United States under the Plan Mérida.
The anti-union repression against striking teachers in Mexico -- following on
the heels of the so-called "reforms" imposed by the international financial
institutions (IMF, OECD, World Bank, etc.) -- concerns all workers and trade
unions the world over.
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